Alberta Privacy Commissioner Frank Work has granted approval to the University of Alberta to use Google's Gmail service.
Alberta Privacy Commish Approves U of A Switch to Gmail
April 13, 2010
Share this post
2 Comments

Law Bytes
Episode 275: David Loukidelis on Why Stripping Privacy Enforcement from Canada’s Privacy Commissioner in Bill C-36 is Unnecessarily Risky Policy
byMichael Geist

June 22, 2026
Michael Geist
Search Results placeholder
Michael Geist on Substack
Recent Posts
Outdated Data and Dubious Comparisons: Digging into the Government’s AI Strategy Adoption Claims
Why Being Locked Out of Frontier AI is The Sovereignty Threat Canada Missed
Blocked Twice: How Bill C-34’s Kids’ Social Media Ban Would Compound the Online News Act’s Harm to Young Canadians’ News Access
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 275: David Loukidelis on Why Stripping Privacy Enforcement from Canada’s Privacy Commissioner in Bill C-36 is Unnecessarily Risky Policy
The Data on Australia’s Social Media Ban: The Better the Privacy Protection, The Less Effective the Ban

not approval, just acceptance
The privacy commissioner doesn’t approve things, rather he has accepted the use of Gmail at U of A. Basically he’s accepted that the U of A has done due diligence.
Good news.
Beats AO-hell by a longshot!